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CRC Standard Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica, Second Edition (Chapman and Hall Crc...
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by David H. von Seggern
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Hardcover: 556 pages
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC; 2 edition October 20, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1584885998
ISBN-13: 978-1584885993
Product Dimensions:
9.9 x 7 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
Product Review
This is a book of mathematical pictures. The reader can use the Mathematica notebooks to modify and play with plots of all functions presented in the book. This book is recommended to anybody interested in the field.
-EMS Newsletter, June 2007
Book Description
Since the publication of the first edition, Mathematica® has matured considerably and the computing power of desktop computers has increased greatly. This enables the presentation of more complex curves and surfaces as well as the efficient computation of formerly prohibitive graphical plots. Incorporating both of these aspects, CRC Standard Curves and Surfaces with Mathematica®, Second Edition is a virtual encyclopedia of curves and functions that depicts nearly all of the standard mathematical functions rendered using Mathematica. While the easy-to-use format remains unchanged from the previous edition, many chapters have been reorganized and better graphical representations of numerous curves and surfaces have been produced. An introductory chapter describes the basic properties of curves and surfaces, includes two handy tables of 2-D and 3-D curve and surface transformations, and provides a quick understanding of the basic nature of mathematical functions. To facilitate more efficient and more thorough use of the material, the whole gamut of curves and surfaces is divided into sixteen individual chapters. The accompanying CD-ROM includes Mathematica notebooks of code to construct plots of all the functions presented in the book. New to the Second Edition · Chapters on minimal surfaces and Green's functions that involve Poisson, wave, diffusion, and Helmholtz equations · Knots and links in the 3-D curves chapter · Archimedean solids, duals of Platonic solids, and stellated forms in the regular polyhedra chapter · Additional curves and surfaces in almost every chapter · Expanded index for quick access to curves or surfaces of interest and to find definitions of common mathematical terms · Upgraded Mathematica notebooks with more uniform formatting, more complete documentation on particular curves and surfaces, an explanation of the plotting algorithms, and more explicit designations of variable parameters to easily adjust curve or surface plots
Customer Reviews & Comments
In the 14 years since the previous edition of this book was published: Mathematica has matured, expanded and improved tremendously The power of the desktop PC has increased many-fold in both processing speed and in memory capacity Several useful but complex curves and surfaces were deliberately left out of the earlier edition because of the first two points. Taken together, this has almost required this offering of a new edition. Virtually every chapter has been re-written. Even the older curves and surfaces have been re-coded to take advantages of new capabilities within Mathematica. Several new chapters have been writteh to cover: Green's functions Minimal Surfaces Knots and Links added to 3-D curves the chapter on regular polyhedra has been greatly expanded. The CD supplied with the books contains Mathematica notebooks of code to construct plots of all the functions presented in the book.
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